From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 11 11:44:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE3037B403; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0380.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.125] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17HqcR-0006oD-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:43:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3D0644C4.10A112E5@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:43:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juli Mallett Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... References: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG> <47290.1023799280@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020611063707.C97611@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020611234055.N91173@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <20020611064612.A703@FreeBSD.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juli Mallett wrote: > > Piping commands through other commands seems icky? > > Relying on reasonable output from ps(1) seems icky when you can extract the > data yourself and not have to worry about formatting getting in the way of > processing data properly. This is just wrong on so many levels... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message